Rewilding Chile has inaugurated the world’s first Huemul Rescue and Rehabilitation Center adjacent to Cerro Castillo National Park, home to 10% of the remnant population of the species, which has lost 99% of its historic population throughout Patagonia. The center...
Bringing A Lost Species Back to the Central Andes
The relocation of 16 guanacos to breeding centers in three nature sanctuaries in the Metropolitan Region of Chile, will invigorate a program to breed guanacos for release in Chile’s Central Andes. The effort relies on public-private collaboration to restore ecosystems...
Kristine Tompkins at TED2024: Rewilding Beyond Borders
The latest TED Talk from Tompkins Conservation president and co-founder Kristine Tompkins offers a vision to connect ecosystems and keystone species beyond park boundaries and national borders, introducing the first of such initiatives. (Header Photograph by Gilberto...
A Surprising Discovery in Patagonian Waters
Working with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the marine program of Rewilding Chile has discovered red hydrocorals in Chile’s Kawésqar National Marine Reserve, located in the Strait of Magellan. This rare and fragile species fosters one of the most biodiverse...
Chile Signs Protocol to Create a New National Park
The government of Chile is taking steps to protect Cape Froward, a remote wilderness on the coast of the Brunswick Peninsula, the southernmost point of the South American continent. The move to create this new national park furthers Chile's commitment to taking...
Four Andean Condors Released in Patagonia
Four Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) released in Patagonia National Park will reinforce the Patagonian population of the largest raptor in the world. This latest rewilding effort is a public and private collaboration between the Manku Project, Cortés Solari...
Chile Accepts Cape Froward Donation
President Gabriel Boric met with Kristine Tompkins on March 1 to move forward with a proposed donation of 230,000 acres on behalf of Tompkins Conservation and Rewilding Chile toward the creation of a future national park on Cape Froward. The forthcoming process of...






